A powerful AI kept from public access because of its ability to hack computers with impunity is making headlines around the ...

Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By ...

Scientists tie a mysterious UV glow across the Milky Way to dark matter annihilation, offering a first indirect glimpse of ...

A student-led experiment has shown that the search for dark matter doesn’t always require massive infrastructure.

Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a wide margin.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by the discovery of extremely large black holes in the early universe. Some of these black ...

Astronomers may have found the universe’s missing matter as diffuse hydrogen gas, revealed through subtle distortions in the ...

In the era of precision cosmology, research often means big science: large observatories, highly complex instruments, international collaborations and ...

A growing mystery in astronomy is the presence of gargantuan black holes—some weighing as much as a billion suns—existing ...

Several theories have attempted to explain excess far-ultraviolet light present in the Milky Way, but none have been ...

Hawking radiation could trigger the evaporation of the Milky Way's stars at a much quicker rate than first expected, ...